L30 Cabinet poster, Colonel Kou Abhay (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A single Lao-language portrait sheet of a smiling man in a white peaked cap and white uniform with shoulder boards, captioned with his rank, name and ministry post. It names no policy or slogan. The tell is transfer: the uniform, insignia and official portrait attach the authority of the state's defence ministry to the named individual.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 25, 1958
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- NARA, RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 25, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949023, 306-PPB-144a).
Text on the object
ທ່ານນາຍພັນຕຣີ ກຸປະສິດ ອະໄພຍ໌ ອະທິບໍດີກະຊວງປ້ອງກັນປະເທດ
Colonel [Kou Abhay (Lao: Kupasit Abhai)], head of the Ministry of National Defence.
Lao script read from the image; the rank and name spellings are as read and may contain misreadings.
